Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson
	Virtus Bologna
1979–1987	Olimpia Milano
2011	Olimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards
	EuroLeague champion (1987); European Coach of the Year (1987); 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008); FIBA Korać Cup champion (1985); 5× Italian League champion (1976, 1982, 1985–1987); 3× Italian Cup winner (1974, 1986, 1987); 2× Italian Coach of the Year (1986, 1987); Italian Basketball Hall of Fame (2012); Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame (1995);

Daniel Lowell Peterson (born January 9, 1936) is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned from his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian LBA after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team then announced that he would assume another role with the club. He is nicknamed "The Coach" for his legacy in Italian basketball.

Biography

Peterson went to Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston and a master's degree from the University of Michigan.

He served as assistant coach for NAIA school McKendree College from 1962 to 1963. From 1963 to 1964 he served as freshmen coach at

Michigan State. After MSU, for one season, he was plebe coach at the United States Naval Academy. The next year, at the age of 30, he became head coach at the University of Delaware. In five years there, he assembled a record of 69 wins and 49 losses.^[2]

In 1971, he went abroad, acting as head coach of the

Korać Cup (1985), and one European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) title, which is the highest title in Europe for pro club

basketball.

In 1987, he retired after coaching in Italy for 24 years, but he resumed coaching on January 3, 2011, with

playoff

format was introduced), 9 finals, 4 titles, 74 games coached, and 51 games won.

On January 3, 2011, he became the new head coach of Olimpia Milano, after the dismissal of Piero Bucchi. He left in June, succeeded by Sergio Scariolo.

Commentator

After his retirement, he became a popular sports commentator (basket and wrestling) for many Italian television channels.

Awards

He received the Coach of the Year award for Europe from the WABC and the Coach of the Year for Italy twice. Following his retirement from coaching, he was inducted into the Illinois Basketball

Hall of Fame

in 1995.

In 2007, Peterson was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Evanston Township High School.^[4]

In 2008, he was named one of the

50 most influential European club basketball personalities over the previous half-century.^[5]

References

External links

Italian League Coach Profile (in Italian)

[1] "Grande Coach: Northwestern Magazine - Northwestern University".

[2] Delaware Men's Basketball Coaching Records

[3] Sports Illustrated article

[4] ETHS Distinguished Alumni

[5] Euroleague Basketball article

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v t e EuroLeague's 50 Greatest Contributors (2008)
35 players	Fragiskos Alvertis Sergei Belov Miki Berkovich Dejan Bodiroga Wayne Brabender Juan Antonio Corbalán Krešimir Ćosić Mike D'Antoni Dražen Dalipagić Saša Danilović Mirza Delibašić Vlade Divac Saša Đorđević Nikos Galis Manu Ginóbili Šarūnas Jasikevičius Radivoj Korać Toni Kukoč Clifford Luyk Pierlo Marzorati Bob McAdoo Dino Meneghin Bob Morse Aldo Ossola Theo Papaloukas Anthony Parker Dražen Petrović Dino Rađa Manolo Raga Antonello Riva Emiliano Rodríguez Arvydas Sabonis J.A. San Epifanio "Epi" Walter Szczerbiak Sr. Panagiotis Giannakis
10 coaches	Pedro Ferrándiz Pini Gershon Alexander Gomelsky Dušan Ivković Božidar Maljković Ettore Messina Aca Nikolić Željko Obradović Dan Peterson Lolo Sainz
5 referees	Artenik Arabadjian Mikhail Davidov Ľubomír Kotleba Yvan Mainini Costas Rigas

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	Italy United States

Biography

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